As a precursor to this (excellent, in depth) post I also recommend Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications, which is (to date) the definitive 1

As a precursor to this (excellent, in depth) post I also recommend Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications, which is (to date) the definitive 101 book on the topic. He also did these awesome Tolkien-esque maps of the database engine ecosystem: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2017/03/15/map-distributed-data-systems.html https://martin.kleppmann.com/2017/03/15/map-distributed-data... Anyway, I inject this sort of stuff directly into my veins, so thanks very much for the post!